It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are..…

Henry David Thoreau
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated), p.1768, Delphi Classics
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated), p.1768, Delphi Classics

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